no but you can do like the Romans and break all their plates.

If you are insured, your probability of death is probably greatter than when you are not insured. Even not considering murder, you will probably take more risks if you know your family is protected.

I am fairly convinced that bullshit jobs (and entire bullshit industries) exist as a consequence of the following things:

1) There is less and less actual work to be done due to technological progress; 2) There are economic incentives to create larger and larger organizations; 3) Society hasn't found a rational way to redistribute wealth yet.

This is tragic. Entire human lives are being wasted on this dystopia of boredom and meaninglessness. I would argue that part of the stalemate is caused by politics and social norms. Even though there is not much actual work to be done, people still tend to tie their self-worth and social status to employment. This leads them to demand jobs from politicians, and the politicians find a way to provide them. "Jobs" is usually one of the main topics in any modern election. A rational society at our current stage of development would be celebrating job destruction, not creation.

As technology progresses, and all things being equal, the situation will only become more extreme and ridiculous. Unfortunately, I bet we will get out of this stalemate in a rather nasty way: through resource depletion and environmental collapse.

It depresses me that our species hasn't been fundamentally able to elevate itself above basic monkey-like biological programs and do better than this.

Second best? At least in my experience, OSM data is leaps and bounds better than Google Maps in every way possible, and it has been that way for a couple years now. The reason that I still use Google maps is that it's fast and well-integrated with my phone, and it has a lot of added features on top of the actual mapping that makes it very useful --- things like location sharing when you're on a longer road trip, creating a notification on your phone to route to an address from your browser, live traffic information, road closures, and business reviews. In terms of the actual data, though, the details available on OSM puts Google's data to shame.

I've been trying to get Google to fix an incorrect path drawn at a state park that I frequent. I've submitted an alternative route twice now, but it's been denied twice with little explanation. The path is a loop, but Google has it missing half of the loop, off by an eighth of a mile or so, and has it drawn where it cuts through private property. In contrast, OSM's data is completely spot on with what my GPS shows.

The park is in a tourist area, and I go to this park often enough that I've actually ran into multiple people visiting who have been standing on the trail with Google Maps open on their phone, thinking they've made a wrong turn.

I've experienced the same thing at GNP in Montana, BWCA in Minnesota/Canada, and all along the Richardson Highway in Alaska. If you're in a rural area or on public land, OSM data is the best available --- even better than what a ranger station would sell you.

That's half a work day spent in commute man ... why?

This is an outrage! Next you're going to tell me that the pictures of happy creatives and handsome businesspersons in every service or product website are not actual users who are just so damn happy that they can't stop smiling, but actors/models or even (gasp) stock photos!

I live in Dubai. I used to get glasses made for AED 100 - AED 200 (USD 27 to USD 54) when I was young, based on what I remember from visits to the opticians with my dad. No insurance.

Sometime after that insurance was introduced. Now, as an adult I pay AED 100 - AED 200 (USD 27 - USD 54) [basically the same amount] as 20% co-insurance when getting glasses.

Note 1: USD and AED are pegged.

Note 2: There has been inflation, but not that much. Tea increased from AED 1 to AED 1.5. Taxi increased from AED 10 to AED 20. Clothes increased 50% perhaps.